Fuck that. This is awful and the song is shit. Looking at the Facebook comments, though... They'll make a lot of money.
A 34 year old b-side as the first single of the reunion. It's only absurd until you remember it's Axl. And the song is so shitty, jesus, I wonder why it didn't cut into Appetite in the first place. This band is so out of touch with reality.
Just artistically, of course. They are clearly very much on known of how to make money.

Great post, man. I totally agree. Axl sounds great, Slash is OK, Duff is forgetable - and the rest is awful. Amazing how they turn such a groovy tune into this dull mess. Well, like they do with every other track that calls for some groove, as you said, Rocket Queen, and also Mr. Brownstone, to name a few.
On tracks like this, Frank and Fortus are embarrassingly bad. Completely mechanical and spineless. And it's a shame, not to say stupid, that they have TWO keyboard players in the band yet we can't hear some strong piano this song could use.
It's true, they need Izzy back, and they should definetly get rid of Frank. The drummer's job is to find the groove within the groove, he can barely find the groove. Bring back Adler, or get Brain out of retirement. Anything.
With this new arrengement and the Better intro - which is completely empty and honestly feels like a bunch of school musicians trying to sound METAL - , I feel like Axl and Slash could very well work together right now, but there's not much in between to glue'em together, musically. Axl sounds good when he wants, so it's a matter of getting him interested. But everything Slash does with a weak band just sounds dull and heavy. Like he doesn't know where to go and just shreds infinetely, adding more weight as the phrases go by.

Frank is awful. He has no idea what the vibes of the songs are and he kills some very important momentuns. He plays everything the same way.
Steven was the right choice from the beggining, and Axl made good choices with Freese and Brain, but both Sorum and Frank were terrible picks.
Though I think Sorum had improved a lot by the time of Contraband.